No education deserves the name unless it develops thought, unless it pierces down to the mysterious spiritual principle of mind, and starts that into activity and growth.

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

Of the three prerequisites of genius; the first is soul; the second is soul; and the third is soul.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but by our thanksgivings.

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

Love is the gentle breeze that tingles in your heart when your mind floats into the abyss of unspoken words

It's usually the funny comments which are the better ones - and they are good for the game.

A leader should never risk their ability to make a difference by making an unnecessary point.

Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.

Please don't think me negligent or rude. I am both, in effect, of course, but please don't think me either.

Service without reward is punishment.

No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties.

I don't know how to work a room. It's a real skill.

It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the father prayed, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.